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The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) together with other media partners has published an investigation based on secret files that reveal complex multimillion-dollar offshore financial deals that channel wealth and power towards a network of people and companies closely allied to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The...

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova says Ukrainian female pilot Nadia Savchenko cannot be released according to the Minsk agreements because she is not subject to the part of the Minsk agreements requiring release of prisoners, but is held as a suspected person, RIA Novosti reported. Such statement Zakharova made in response to...

UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic has announced a United Nations updated report on victims of the Donbas war and warned that the ceasefire in the east of Ukraine is in jeopardy. More than 9,000 had been killed and more than 21,000 injured during the Donbas conflict, he said in Geneva at the 31st session of the UN...

The Donetsk City Court of Russia`s Rostov region has sentenced Ukrainian pilot, MP and member of the Ukrainian delegation to PACE Nadia Savchenko to 22 years` imprisonment in a penal colony. In addition, the Russian court fined up Savchenko to RUB 30,000 for illegally crossing the Russian border.In particular, the court sentenced Savchenko to 18...

U.S. Senator John McCain, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement on the announcement that the Russian military will begin withdrawing some of its military forces from Syria: “The announcement that Russia will begin withdrawing some military forces from Syria signals Vladimir Putin’s belief that he has...

In an interview to Radio Liberty the head of the “Government of Ichkeria in exile” Ahmed Zakayev, who lives in exile in London, examines the recent actions and statements of Ramzan Kadyrov and evaluates the role of Chechnya in the strategy of the Russian authorities. There is a continuing public debate in Russia about the role of the...

Syrian truce has repeatedly compared to what we can see in Donbas. The war does not stop, and the supply of weapons and equipment only increases. And the Syrian version of its degraded form of this kind of agreements makes a serious imbalance in the Mediterranean balance of power. So, recently the Russian destroyer Smetlivy left occupied...

The russian soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Russian Occupation Army Corps are actively preparing for military action to further expand control over the territory of Ukraine, support their foremost troops ready for action and conduct battle training activities in the Russian Armed Forces system. The training activities focus on motorized rifle, tank...

International Forum “Crimea is Ukraine. The annexed peninsula between the past and the future”. 26 February 2016, Kyiv, Ukraine Crisis Media Center. Refat Chubarov, Head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People,: “For me, today’s situation with Crimea confirms a “deadlock” of its development over twenty three years of direct...

Speech by Ukrainian political analyst Yuri Romanenko to foreign diplomats and experts in the Lithuanian Embassy in Kyiv on February 8, 2016. Originally published on Хвиля. “Dear ladies and gentlemen, our forum is taking place against the backdrop of a corruption scandal connected with Igor Kononenko, and it perfectly illustrates my...